Media Release 12 July 2022 - Anne Wilson, CEO of Emerge Australia, said “since the announcement of the plan the organisation has had many distressed calls, especially from pensioners, who were worried about not being able to pay extra fees for longer telehealth consultations as they battled with ME/CFS. Read more
Emerge Australia, the national patient organisation providing services and evidence-based education about myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) today issued an alert on a potential major hit to the Federal Budget and health services facing both major parties. Read more
Emerge Australia’s State of the Nation report includes five priority areas for government to improve the lives of people with ME/CFS. In the lead up to the federal election, Emerge Australia is writing to all federal parliamentarians to seek their support for these five priority areas. Read more
ABC NewsRadio's Cameron Green spoke to Dr Richard Schloeffel, Medical Director of Emerge Australia about the similarities between ME/CFS and Long COVID. Read more
Emerge Australia presented the keynote address on Sunday 23 July, at the second GPCE conference for 2022 in Perth. Just as at Sydney’s conference, Emerge Australia’s Medical Director Dr Richard Schloeffel, OAM, presented about diagnosis, management and treatment options for Long COVID and ME/CFS. Read more
One of our volunteers, Jenny, Dr Richard Schloeffel and CEO Anne Wilson were recently interviewed for the RMIT City Journal by Rebecca Kazmierczak. Read more
Our International Roundup provides a brief snapshot of some of the ME/CFS research funding, clinical care and advocacy actions around the world in the last few months. Read more
One cold evening in late July, Emerge Australia’s Nurse Educator, Kate Herbert, presented to the Australian Physiotherapy Association pain special interest group about ME/CFS. With over 100 participants, including attendees also from other special interest groups, this was the most well attended presentation Kate has delivered to date. Read more
Current medical predictions suggesting up to 325,000 people may be affected by Long COVID, in addition to the 250,000 living with ME/CFS, will be the foundation of a major post viral attack on the Australian community in coming years threatening national and state budgets. Read more
Support for Australians living with Long COVID and ME/CFS currently exists in silos. The burden of disease for ME/CFS, as described above, should be read as a warning about the potential impact of Long COVID. Read more
A high degree of similarity and strong links between ME/CFS and Long COVID offer opportunities for researchers to collaborate. Read more
Listen to Emerge Australia's CEO Anne Wilson speak with Luke Grant on 3GB radio about the Federal Government plan to cut some telehealth services and charge the cost for longer consultations directly to patients. Read more